NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah takes a look at how black boxes work and who invented them in light of the recent mid-air collision over the Potomac River.

Some have suggested that it stems from Hussenot's device, because it used film and "ran continuously in a light-tight box, ...

What is black box 'telematics' insurance? Black box insurance, also known as telematics, is a type of car insurance policy that calculates your premium based on the way that you drive. Our short video ...

A small black hole would plunge straight into the event horizon, while a normal star would quickly be torn apart by tidal forces. But astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact ...

Russia has broken its silence on the investigation into the data from the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) aircraft's black box after the flight crashed on December 25 on its way to Grozny. During a ...

Here are some details on black boxes and moves to improve them. What are black boxes? They are not actually black but high-visibility orange. Experts disagree how the nickname originated but it ...

Black boxes can be damaged by impact, fire or prolonged exposure to deep water. But it is hard to explain how the Jeju Air black box failed to record in its last four minutes. 179 people were ...

SEOUL – The two black boxes on the Boeing jet involved in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil stopped recording about four minutes before the accident, the transport ministry ...

They are not actually black but high-visibility orange. Experts disagree how the nickname originated but it has become synonymous with the quest for answers when planes crash. Many historians ...

“They're kind of black boxes, so they will tell you that this ... Travizory’s footprint is still relatively small, though Irminger says they are a leading API-PNR system on the market.

The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, commonly called black boxes, both stopped functioning around four minutes before Jeju Air flight 2216 crashed at Muan International Airport, South ...

The South Korean Transportation Ministry said on Saturday the black boxes pulled out from the wreckage of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last month, stopped recording about four minutes before ...